Tuesday, 26 August 2014

THE MASS GRAVES OF RHODESIA

THE HIDDEN SECRETS OF RHODESIAN WHITES

The bodies of the victims of white Rhodesian forces of the
Chimurenga War are still being discovered in mass graves. Hundreds of bodies
have recently been discovered in Penhalonga, near Mutare, around former white
commercial area.

There are still some white commercial farmers who
participated in the war who are still in the area. These and other farmers who are
still in the country must be held accountable, not only for the deaths of the
victims but for concealment of the mass graves on their farms.

The above, murdering a person, not reporting deaths and
concealment of bodies are criminal offences. The State must simply look up who
the previous owner of these properties are at the Deeds Office and lay criminal
charges against the former commercial farm.

The VICTIMS

The victims in the mass graves includes unarmed women,
children and armed liberation combatants. The victims have not been documented
and are being identified using traditional spirit mediums.

The government should at least document the events and
location of exhumation sites.

These sites of mass graves must be recorded for
the purpose of identifying the killers and the victim. Identifications will
also assist if compensations of the victims should arise.

COMPENSATION

The family of these victims I think should be compensated. I
propose a Special Parliamentary Committee must be set up to look into ways of
funding of the exhumation of mass graves and identifying the victims using DNA
technology.

The funds must be sourced or set off against the
compensation claims of the white commercial farmers on improvements to their
farms.

SETTING OFF OR KURIPA NGOZI

It is true that every white commercial farmer around these
mass graves must have known of their presence and their contents and they had a
moral responsibility to report and acknowledge them. The failure to report
these graves is not only criminal but a total rejection of Robert Mugabe call
of National Reconciliation of 1980.

These Rhodesian criminals must pay for their collective sin
by compensating the families of their victim. Our culture and tradition calls
it “kuripa Ngozi”. Let those be tormented soul be compensated.

WHAT CAN WE DO?

The State and media are not doing enough to highlight the
Rhodesian atrocities and excesses. Let us talk about it. It is the State’s duty
to take care of its citizen ,dead or alive. It is the media duty to report the
crimes of yesteryear as they are unearthed in those mass graves.